Hyundai stunt shows how tech makes today's drivers incidental

If you're reading R&T, the presumption is that you love driving, and the idea of relinquishing control to the car makes your skin crawl. The thing is, modern vehicles with the latest, greatest driver aids practically make the driver a passenger in all but name only.

With the right features, you, the driver, are incidental to the process of driving.

We've seen this with cars like the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class, and now Hyundai (yes, Hyundai) steps up with a demonstration that hammers the point home with no shortage of theatrics. They sent a convoy of Genesis sedans to their desert proving ground to showcase what the cars are capable of with their smart cruise control on and the lane-keep assist modified to never shut off (which is basically how Google's magical Muppet-face car would behave).